book cover

Book cover with a silver-gilt Spanish setting of a Byzantine ivory crucifixion, silver-gilt with pseudo-filigree, glass, crystal, and sapphire cabochons, ivory on wood support, before 1085; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Overall 26.4 × 21.9 × 2.5 cm.

Credit: Photograph by Katie Chao. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.134)